All spring, I have been tweaking our flower beds and pulling the weeds. I have many many flower beds, and I have been working over the last 13 years of living here to make them easy to maintain. Hundreds of bags of mulch, oodles of annuals, and hundreds of hours put into the flower beds have FINALLY made them beautiful!
Except for one.
Each year, I hate working on this one flower bed. It sits overtop our septic tank, and embedded in the middle is the access to the septic. It is an eyesore in my yard no matter how much time is spent on it. Last year, I purchased perennials in hopes that it would flourish and look beautiful.
This spring, it was the same ol’ same ol’… A hot mess.
I planted strawberries (my fave) last year and hoped to find enough for a strawberry shortcake dessert this year ,but nothing. Those sweet, delectable morsels were strangled by all the weeds, and they couldn’t grow.
While weeding the flower bed from some awful weeds and hoping to let my strawberries breathe, I got in my head a bit.
What a shame it is that these weeds are choking my strawberries and all of the beautiful perennials in this flower bed. Then, BOOM, I wonder what is choking me and keeping me from growing?
Perhaps fear is keeping me from trying something new, or maybe guilt is keeping me from moving forward in a relationship. Maybe it is my selfishness that is keeping me from opening up to people and accepting help… or maybe it’s my pride. So many weeds in my own life. Weeds that want to cripple me from being the best version of me that I can be.
I was no longer thinking of the plants’ growth on the flower bed being stunted by the weeds but rather my own life what is stunting my growth.
I want to bloom without hindrance to the very things that get close to me and then prevent me from growing.
I want to come back each year stronger and more resilient than the prior year. So, I need to pick the weeds and keep my eye on them so they don’t become big. I need to pull them as soon as my eye can see the new growth.
Pulling the weeds will result in a better you!